The current leadership indicates that the club “remains faithful to the principles and values demonstrated since its appointment in 2017”.
The news of Gernika, normally smooth, has been punctuated this week by an extra-sporting episode that weakens its floating zone. Three of the four captains of Gernika, who play in the Second RFEF after their promotion this year, Lander Torrealdai, a midfielder with more than 400 as a player of the regional team, goalkeeper Jon Altamira and winger Ibon Enziondo, announced that they were leaving the squad since already, not feeling comfortable with the direction of the entity, by means of a wide note in which they explained the reasons for their drastic decision. «We need to say that we feel hurt, we hope to be at the club in the future. The club has lost its identity “, they indicated challenging that they did not agree with the path that the entity was taking. “We hope that the club recovers its identity again and becomes a family,” they reiterate.
The foral club, as an institution on the part of its Board of Directors, has come out to the step to narrate its version of the events and explain to its closest environment, which demands answers to a singular event, and to the world of football in general, its behavior Faced with this escape of three of his emblems from recent campaigns, just after the defeat in Logroño against the leader of the Second RFEF, Racing Rioja by 4-3: «In relation to the reasons given for his departure, we showed a deep surprise and regret because the main reason given to the sports director and the president in the meeting on Tuesday 26 (one day before the captains’ note) is of another nature, “he says. On the other hand, he points out that the Regional Board “remains faithful to the principles and values demonstrated since its appointment in 2017, moments in which we assume our maximum commitment to this entity”, recalling that they have 350 boys at the base, with 15 teams and an Eskola.
However, the club recognizes, on the other hand, the “time, dedication and affection” that the three Gernika footballers have always shown and regrets “the decision to abandon the sporting and human project in which they had trusted with their renewal in the past summer with his promotion and first championship obtained by the entity “, in reference to the title of the Third Division under the baton of the current coach, Óscar Vales. Regarding the configuration of the current first team, adds the Board of Directors, “we will always maintain the roadmap, the philosophy that we transmit to the social mass because the team competes in the highest category possible, with the maximum number of homegrown players and Gernikeses” , he relates in his defense. The note concludes by underlining that this mess that has plagued the foundations of Urbieta “is not easy for anyone of us who love and defend this club.”
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